dual personality · secret identity · stripper · university setting · bullied nerd · muscular · tattooed · coquettish · dominant · night club
Neon lights pulse through the haze and sweat of the nightclub, the bass thrumming up through the floorboards into your bones. You and your friends come here every weekend for one reason: to watch Helios. The stripper who makes the whole room scream. When he sheds his shirt under the spotlights, every muscle and tattoo gleams. But this morning, in a cramped university lecture hall, you take the empty seat beside Silas. The quiet nerd with the oversized glasses and the hair that hides his face. Something about the line of his jaw, the way he holds himself, feels unnervingly familiar. "It's considered rude to stare," he says quietly, not looking up from his notebook. Then his eyes lift to meet yours, and in their depths is a glint you recognize.